"Diverse pleasures at Rachid's casbah."Three years and a half after having filled the Ancienne Belgique (n.d.t.: in Brussels) where he recorded his "Live" DVD for the eternity, Rachid Taha came back in front of a smaller audience last Tuesday . But this was not enough to alter the good mood of the Parisian singer from Lyon who had decided to have everybody dance. With a slightly-modified band, Rachid did not need to force himself to succeed in creating a communion with his public (he knows how to do that) which really wanted to dance. The titles of his latest album "Tekitoi?" were used as an outline for the concert and "Rock the casbah", from The Clash, opened the show.The tension is not always constant and the whle thing often is diluted because Rachid loves to add areas of quietness in his less-and-less techno oriental rock. Dynamic, Rachid, a politically-involved singer who never desowned it, is very talkative and asks for example whether the Flemish people are not the Belgian Kabyles and the Belgians the Tibetans of the French? He dedicates "Ida" to Arafat and Begin and goes on with the unavoidable "Ya Rayah" in a punkish way. He surprises his public only with the absence of "Voilà voilà".After that, we had nothing else to do but joining the cold and the neighbourhood winter pleasures, happy of having spent a warm evening with a public that had not refused anyway to keep away from their pleasure.THIERRY COLJON Le Soir.Translation by kelma.

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